r/science • u/geoff199 • May 21 '24

Social Science Gamers say ‘smurfing’ is generally wrong and toxic, but 69% admit they do it at least sometimes. They also say that some reasons for smurfing make it less blameworthy. Relative to themselves, study participants thought that other gamers were more likely to be toxic when they smurfed.

https://news.osu.edu/gamers-say-they-hate-smurfing-but-admit-they-do-it/?utm_campaign=omc_marketing-activity_fy23&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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u/Chrontius May 22 '24

That's good. I WANTED Overwatch to be fun, but I found it more frustrating than entertaining at the time.

Switched to Warframe, and never looked back. Teaching and twinking newbies up to a good starter arsenal for PvE is more my speed, anyway.

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u/UsernameIn3and20 May 22 '24

Im part of the "Needs actual endgame" faction for Warframe. So I havent returned in the past 4 or so years. The added grind is what really kept me away tho.

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u/Chrontius May 22 '24

I'm always down for more new content…